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FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC (Florida) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,529,238 to it, the largest being WINTER PARK HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($2,104,402). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Foundation for Orange County Public Schools Inc does
Mission
The foundation for orange county public schools identifies, develops and focuses community involvement and investment to lead students to success. Our purpose is investing in children today to strengthen our community tomorrow. As the designated direct-support organization for the school board of orange county, fl, we serve as the philanthropic arm of the district, facilitating a wide range of donor intent from innovation for a single school or program through scaling to districtwide initiatives. We focus on ensuring learning readiness, investing in teachers and staff, accelerating student success, promoting success after ocps, and driving community colaboration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization started the alegebra I learning program to support high schools in lowering the number of students in algebra I classrooms across 10 high schools during the 2024-25 school year, allowing each student to receive more dedicated instruction.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The organization discontinued the volo foundation support related to fleet farming projects.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The foundation team managed a large grant from orange county: $869,607 for algebra I learning loss recovery. The grant provided support by lowering the number of students in 19 algebra I classrooms at 10 high schools during the 2024-25 school year, allowing each student to receive more dedicated instruction.
$869,607 spentof which $869,607 as grants13% of program spendingThe foundation team is managing a large grant from orange county: $1,696,912 over three years for student internships in concert with career and technical education (fy2025 was year 2). This grant provides training, preparation and paid summer internships for students, giving them hands-on experience in the practical work of a high-interest career area, as well as real-world, real-time experience in the soft skills needed to succeed in any career.
$815,334 spentof which $815,334 as grants12% of program spendingTeacher impact grantsthis year, teachers were invited to apply for more than $445,000 to support classroom projects in the fall. Grant amounts range from $250 to $15,000, and are available for k-12 math, science, engineering and other stem projects as well as visual and performing arts. Judging took place in late september. Funds were distributed to winning projects in early october.for the second year in a row, the phoenix foundation offered another $100,000 in teacher grants for arts programs this spring. This brings the phoenix foundation's two-year investment in teacher grants for arts programs alone to $430,000. Applications were solicited from arts teachers and guidance on writing a strong application was offered; winners were selected during spring break, and surprise visits to winning teachers were coordinated from the end of march through the first week of april.
$554,016 spentof which $554,016 as grants8% of program spendingThe following are examples of additional programs and services provided by the foundation. This is not an exhaustive list. For more details, please refer to the management discussion and analysis in the foundation's audited financial statements.read2succeed read2succeed is an enrichment program designed to help our youngest students develop reading skills required to achieve long-term academic success and to be prepared for the modern world. The program offered individualized reading instruction to 5,144 students in kindergarten, first and second grade at 120 elementary schools. Of those for whom data were available, students improved as follows: kindergarten: 88% gained mastery from beginning to end-of-year sipps assessments. First grade: 99% showed growth from vocabulary pre-test to post-test scores. Second grade: 95.6% showed growth from fluency pre-test to post-test scores.city year orlando city year americorps members provided academic support, attendance monitoring and activities like assemblies and celebrations that improve the overall school environment at eight schools: catalina and eccleston elementary schools; meadowbrook, memorial and walker middle schools; and evans,…
$4,316,520 spentof which $1,524,611 as grants66% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,555,477.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.3M to $5.7M (+31%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 19% · 2023 13% · 2024 13% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Deborah Pedraza
Executive director
Board chair
Martha Santoni
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $90k → $1.3M.
12 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.7M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 44% · 2019 36% · 2020 22% · 2021 24% · 2022 23% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
35% of FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC (Florida) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,529,238 to it, the largest being WINTER PARK HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($2,104,402). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $6,529,238 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC?
- WINTER PARK HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,104,402 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 57 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing